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one of the biggest unions larry. he said in western europe, they may have higher unemployment but they have less inequality. this is what the agenda is all about. in a practical way, suppose you have a successful person. he or she want to build a house. to do that you might hire 15, 20, 25 people. you got a whole army of people who would go to work. but if you get taxed, you might not guy that house. and you won't build. that is the kind of logic i'm not hearing. dow think they get that? >> they don't. i saw lincoln. remember during the debate in 2008 charlie gibson asked the then president obama why raise capital gains? he said it is about social justice and fairness. it doesn't matter that it doesn't work. what counts to these people is class and attacking this rich guy and this poor person who doesn't have much money. but the guy is on the margin of poverty. would love to go to work as a landscaper in this hypothetical home that i am describing. the guy on the margin, they would love to work like that. so, there i
one of the biggest unions larry. he said in western europe, they may have higher unemployment but they have less inequality. this is what the agenda is all about. in a practical way, suppose you have a successful person. he or she want to build a house. to do that you might hire 15, 20, 25 people. you got a whole army of people who would go to work. but if you get taxed, you might not guy that house. and you won't build. that is the kind of logic i'm not hearing. dow think they get that?...
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picking the pockets of non union employees on union work sites. i think you should tell the president and vice president don't pick the american pockets so much. you know, i think republicans at the end of the day want to make a strategic move to extend the middle class tax cuts. but i think these huge revenue numbers which pick taxpayer pockets. don't go so far in that. taxpayers have limits. >> larry, i thought your position in that interview was right. i was thinking i'm glad larry is here in town comes down to my town to talk about economic growth. and we can have all kinds of arguments that you and i have had for years. but your position was right. we have to solve this problem which is going to involve problems in the interest in the economy and full session. nobody is arguing that they are going to do anything to stimulate the economy. they have said the opposite. president obama was saying you don't do this in the middle of a recession. i think jacking up the taxes on the job creators on small businesses it is like 700,000 jobs. >> what ka
picking the pockets of non union employees on union work sites. i think you should tell the president and vice president don't pick the american pockets so much. you know, i think republicans at the end of the day want to make a strategic move to extend the middle class tax cuts. but i think these huge revenue numbers which pick taxpayer pockets. don't go so far in that. taxpayers have limits. >> larry, i thought your position in that interview was right. i was thinking i'm glad larry is...
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. >> those unions don't want it. we saw the clip when this story first came up that gal on the city council said detroit delivered for barack obama in the election, he should now bring home the bacon for detroit. the unions don't want it. the media don't want it. i'm not sure if dave bing who was a great basketball player, maybe not such a hot mayor. this thing has to go under a financial control board, doc. you know that. they're incapable of governing themselves in detroit. >> the problem is, in michigan we just had a referendum on a pretty strong emergency manager law we had in place. we go back to the old one now. and it's weaker. and the one thing that it won't be able to do is renegotiate those government worker contracts. which is what we need. >> then maybe governor snyder's got to be tougher. maybe he's got to come in with executive powers, doc. i don't know the state constitution. just saying it's very clear first of all detroit may be the largest bankruptcy in the country that. may be right on its way. sec
. >> those unions don't want it. we saw the clip when this story first came up that gal on the city council said detroit delivered for barack obama in the election, he should now bring home the bacon for detroit. the unions don't want it. the media don't want it. i'm not sure if dave bing who was a great basketball player, maybe not such a hot mayor. this thing has to go under a financial control board, doc. you know that. they're incapable of governing themselves in detroit. >> the...
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why are these unions so angry about giving workers free choice? why is so much of the news media carrying the union's water by not reporting the story? we'll have some answers in just a little while. now, the market gyrated today over ben bernanke and the fed. at first they loved the new bond buying and money printing message. but then they gave up all their gains feeling unemployment may drop faster and the party would somehow be over. i'm not sure i understand this but we'll ask our experts mike, i gue i guess the idea is maybe the unemployment gets to 6.5% and the 0 interest rate goes up, why would that be bad? sometimes i don't understand the stock market at all. >> i don't think it's the employment figure. i think it's the inflation number that bernanke threw out there, larry. you also mentioned 2.5% inflation as being certainly that would look him put the brakes on. we look at treasuries relative to tips, it's a at 3.08%. i think the market is saying we might be where bernanke is talking about inflation and putting on the brakes. i think tha
why are these unions so angry about giving workers free choice? why is so much of the news media carrying the union's water by not reporting the story? we'll have some answers in just a little while. now, the market gyrated today over ben bernanke and the fed. at first they loved the new bond buying and money printing message. but then they gave up all their gains feeling unemployment may drop faster and the party would somehow be over. i'm not sure i understand this but we'll ask our experts...
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they are open territory important the democrats to say let's unionize you and buy this message. until we -- let me finish. let me just finish -- >> i want to win 40% of them. the conversation about free markets and work and entrepreneurship is terrific. don't go on welfare, don't be dependent on government, go to work. >> but that's not what we're seeing. look at the data. you won't get 40% if they buy this idea of collectivism and socialism and this community of people polled very high for collectivism and socialism. >> i don't buy that. >> the data is clear. it's similar to what has happened in black communities. just a few percentages behind. >> i think we can't even have conservatives cannot even begin a conversation with immigrants until conservatives quit the deportation law and order harshness. then i think having put that aside, having shown there's some compassion i think you can go back to that group, george w. bush got 40%, jeb bush got close to 50%, governor perry gets a high amount. it can to be done, star. >> i'm not saying it can't to be done but you can't say tha
they are open territory important the democrats to say let's unionize you and buy this message. until we -- let me finish. let me just finish -- >> i want to win 40% of them. the conversation about free markets and work and entrepreneurship is terrific. don't go on welfare, don't be dependent on government, go to work. >> but that's not what we're seeing. look at the data. you won't get 40% if they buy this idea of collectivism and socialism and this community of people polled very...
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when the bill becomes law, unions will have the right to make their case. now workers will have the right to make their decision. >> can i switch gears briefly on the question of detroit city, its terrible finances, the likelihood that it's going into bankruptcy, some of the local politicians asked president obama to bail out detroit city. do you think a bail out like that's coming? >> i think we need detroit to accept responsibility. we need a healthy detroit. in michigan we want a healthy detroit. we need detroiters to accept responsibility. they are free to ask the president for more money. i can tell you there will not be more money coming from lansing. we need to get detroit fixed and move forward together. >> apparently mayor dave bing, the former basketball great and a good businessman before he was mayor says, and i will quote -- he blames the culture of victimization and entitlement for detroit's woes. i can write that large for the entire usa budget deficit but let's stick to detroit. is the mayor correct? >> i will leave mayor bing to stand for h
when the bill becomes law, unions will have the right to make their case. now workers will have the right to make their decision. >> can i switch gears briefly on the question of detroit city, its terrible finances, the likelihood that it's going into bankruptcy, some of the local politicians asked president obama to bail out detroit city. do you think a bail out like that's coming? >> i think we need detroit to accept responsibility. we need a healthy detroit. in michigan we want a...
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, previously been covered by the machinist union. but they added jobs there. and this was considered to be retaliation rather than good business sense to have two locations making the dreamliner. >> i had two quick questions on this. i'm so interested in this board and their judges. apparently one of the deputy consuls or something e-mails one of the members or somebody and said that she was worried that they might have made the machinist union angry or mad. that's absolutely incredible. that's in the reporting here, which i guess proves your point. but that's just total bias. >> obviously, if you're so concerned that you don't even want the union leadership to be "angry" at you, that shows you're trying to play favorites for the union. remember, this was a suit that as soon as the union settled a new contract with boeing, they made this go away when, in fact, if it was wrong conduct -- misconduct on behalf of boeing, it should have continued. but in fact, this was used as a technique to get the machinist union a new contract that th
, previously been covered by the machinist union. but they added jobs there. and this was considered to be retaliation rather than good business sense to have two locations making the dreamliner. >> i had two quick questions on this. i'm so interested in this board and their judges. apparently one of the deputy consuls or something e-mails one of the members or somebody and said that she was worried that they might have made the machinist union angry or mad. that's absolutely incredible....
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ineptitude, corruption, and big union thuggery. maybe that's redundant. >> where is mayor dave bing on this? i thought he was going to be here. i know governor snyder has tried to essentially take over detroit, but i don't think he succeeded. so where is bing on this? >> dave bing has come out and said yeah, people have an entitlement mentality. the workers in the city of detroit, he knows. dave bing has done some things wrong, but he's a lot closer to it than joanne watson is. the governor tried to take over, tried to use an emergency manager power to say that the state can take over. and the city of detroit, the people went nuts. they called it racism, they called it all kinds of stuff and said they're taking away our vote. larry, i stood with them. i said you're right, those people should have their vote. but when detroit screws up, when the mayor of the council screws up, you're on your own. don't expect a bailout from us if you want that local power. >> we're going to leave it there. doc thompson, thank you very much. well put
ineptitude, corruption, and big union thuggery. maybe that's redundant. >> where is mayor dave bing on this? i thought he was going to be here. i know governor snyder has tried to essentially take over detroit, but i don't think he succeeded. so where is bing on this? >> dave bing has come out and said yeah, people have an entitlement mentality. the workers in the city of detroit, he knows. dave bing has done some things wrong, but he's a lot closer to it than joanne watson is. the...
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the union's got a pretty sweet deal, no? >> it definitely get another deal and they are very upset about it because they thought that was the letter of the law. and you can't go back and relitigate things and the people at general motors will say, listen, what's done is done. we didn't come in there and say the senior bond holders, they don't get as nice of a deal as somebody else. there are people, though, who are still upset about it. no doubt. >> phil has mentioned -- it's not like gm is out of the wood. do you expect this to be a vibrant, very successful company with great frocked? >> i think the u.s. market is starting to look more like europe in terms of how market share is -- before they were big pieces and now everybody is more equally divided. >> maybe it's not just about the u.s. they make a lot of money other places, right, phil? >> they do. china. china is huge for them and southeast asia. they're growing around the world. doesn't mean clear sailing. but it's a much healthier company than it was when it went into
the union's got a pretty sweet deal, no? >> it definitely get another deal and they are very upset about it because they thought that was the letter of the law. and you can't go back and relitigate things and the people at general motors will say, listen, what's done is done. we didn't come in there and say the senior bond holders, they don't get as nice of a deal as somebody else. there are people, though, who are still upset about it. no doubt. >> phil has mentioned -- it's not...
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the union that represents dock workers and u.s. maritime lines came to an agreement today to extend their current contract for 30 days. this is a big relief now for the retail industry and consumers who were staring at real destruction again for the supply chain. here now is jonathan gold and he's vice president of supply chain and customs policy for the national retail federation. jonathan, good to see you. >> michelle, thanks for having me tonight. >> how dramatic, how bad would it have been if come next year, in other words, in just a few days we had a strike on all of the ports on the east coast of america? >> it would have been fairly significant if we would had a shutdown on all of the ports from the east to texas and it would affect importing, exporting, manufacturers who rely on inputs to production, farmers who are trying to get their products to market overseas, trucking companies who sold jobs to pick up containers at the ports this would have been felt fairly wide throughout the u.s. economy. >> can you put a number on
the union that represents dock workers and u.s. maritime lines came to an agreement today to extend their current contract for 30 days. this is a big relief now for the retail industry and consumers who were staring at real destruction again for the supply chain. here now is jonathan gold and he's vice president of supply chain and customs policy for the national retail federation. jonathan, good to see you. >> michelle, thanks for having me tonight. >> how dramatic, how bad would...
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when he ran for the recall than he did when he first ran, which i thought was incredible with all the union and fiscal reforms he had that were so controversial. >> exactly. and many people, larry, who wound up voting for barack obama and helped the obama/biden ticket carry the badger state even with the native son on their republican ticket, nonetheless voted for scott walker in that recall election. because they liked what he was doing. very simply, it's making some state employees pay a little bit more for their pension and health care packages, not as much as in the private sector, but a little more, and that way turned a $3.6 million deficit into a $500,000 reserve. reserve being the surplus and the rainy day fund for wisconsin. >> and hold back collective bargaining and made co-pays for pensions and co-pays for health care and stopped the free lunch that was going on in wisconsin. you know, john, i think you're looking at presidential timber. i really think scott walker has to be in that conversation. i know it's very early, but i think he has to be in that conversation. >> well, my f
when he ran for the recall than he did when he first ran, which i thought was incredible with all the union and fiscal reforms he had that were so controversial. >> exactly. and many people, larry, who wound up voting for barack obama and helped the obama/biden ticket carry the badger state even with the native son on their republican ticket, nonetheless voted for scott walker in that recall election. because they liked what he was doing. very simply, it's making some state employees pay...
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. >> and he had a chance to sign letters of protest to the european union regarding hezbollah, the terrorist group, and he refused to do so. >> i want to go back to the sitting on the deutsche bank americas advisory board. there's the problem, larry. there's something new that will come up. these matters that you point to are consistent and known. what's unknown right now is the justice department's interest in deutsche bank, america's advisory board, and money laundering with iran. that's fresh, and that could be a problem in the weeks ahead. that's why they're saying uncertain at this time. >> and hagel was on that advisory board, john? not just part of the bank, but on that advisory board? >> participating in that advisory board, and that's fresh information. this is all moving very fast, because the senate staffing and the vetting process at the white house are now turning to chuck hagel. that's significant. but it is not -- it also determines that there are questions to be answered. i talked to washington within this last hour, larry, and again, uncertain is the word that came up severa
. >> and he had a chance to sign letters of protest to the european union regarding hezbollah, the terrorist group, and he refused to do so. >> i want to go back to the sitting on the deutsche bank americas advisory board. there's the problem, larry. there's something new that will come up. these matters that you point to are consistent and known. what's unknown right now is the justice department's interest in deutsche bank, america's advisory board, and money laundering with iran....